Social History – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 6

Angus Vine
Early Modern Merchants and Their Books

Vine provides the first dedicated account of the literary and intellectual lives of the merchants of 17th-century Britain. Drawing on methods in book history, and presenting a series of examples chosen to…

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Aaron Mahnke
Exhumed

From critically acclaimed podcaster and bestselling author Aaron Mahnke comes this engrossing and macabre exploration of the folklore and early medical practices that led to the New England Vampire Panic …

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Michael Kimmel
Playmakers

In 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear in the back room of their Brooklyn sweet shop. Together, they launched the Ideal Toy Corporation into a pre-war market rife with other first-genera…

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Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country's crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brin…

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Jeff Hobbs
Seeking Shelter

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New YorkerIn the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a "remarkably vivid...deeply empathetic" (Los Angeles Times ) story that follows a single mother o…

lieferbar ab 10.2.2026.

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Pam Inder
Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods

Tracing its development from a trade devoted to selling small needlework articles, ribbons and trimmings to one chiefly concerned with making and selling hats and bonnets, Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods…

lieferbar ab 22.1.2026.

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Louise Heren,
Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes

Taking fifteen real-life criminal cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland between 1700 and 2000, this book explores developments in social attitudes and legal responses to violence. F…

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Susana Barnes,
Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World

University of Calgary Press

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World presents a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land governance in Portugal and across five former Portuguese colo…

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Kohn
Dope Girls

Now a major BBC TV series: a tour through the seedier side of Britain between the wars, and the moral panic that led to the criminalisation of drugs - reissued with added material.

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Susana Barnes,
Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World

University of Calgary Press

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World presents a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land governance in Portugal and across five former Portuguese colo…

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Jeff Hobbs
Seeking Shelter

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New YorkerIn the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a "remarkably vivid...deeply empathetic" (Los Angeles Times ) story that follows a single mother o…

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Fay Bound-Alberti
The Face

Award-winning historian Fay Bound-Alberti synthesizes over twenty years of research to offer a sweeping cultural history of our most decisive---and sometimes divisive---body part.What's in a face? And how…

lieferbar ab 9.6.2026.

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Harry Malcolmson
Scene

The Scene explores the dynamic Toronto art scene of the 1960s, highlighting the role of new collectors and private galleries, profiling key artists, and scrutinizing the transformation of major art instit…

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A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 500 CE, exploring the great richness and diversity of mathematical thought and activity across the ancient world. Our mode…

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Len Travers
The Notorious Edward Low

Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)--generally known in the Americas as Queen Anne's War--a dramatic, decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim. Often glamorized as the …

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Darryl Jones
For the Dead Remember

M. R. James: greatest of all ghost story writers, a repressed member of the English establishment struggling against changing timesEvery Christmas around the turn of the twentieth century, Montague Rhodes…

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Sergio Guerra Vilaboy, Oscar Loyola Vega
Cuba

"Cuba: A Brief History covers the pre-Hispanic period, through Cuba's struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the period after Fidel Castro's d…

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Ignorance Unmasked

We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here-and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked e…

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Michael Collins
Windrush Cricket

How did the 'quintessentially English' game of cricket come to be so important across Britain's Caribbean empire? As empire declined and gave way to complex patterns of migration, what part did cricket pl…

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Jenny Linford
Repast

A deliciously fascinating, expertly written global tour of cooking, eating, and drinking, told through objects in the collection of the British Museum.

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